CANDIDATES in Dagupan City for the May 10 election will sign a peace covenant on Monday, March 8, after a holy mass at the St. John Metropolitan Cathedral at 9:00 a.m. City Election Officer Remarque Ravanzo said the signing of a peace covenant among candidates was initiated by city police…
CALASIAO—Tax cheats, beware! The Bureau of Internal Revenue (BIR) has the system to ferret out income earners and businessmen who do not pay the correct amount or completely evade payment of taxes. BIR Commissioner Joel Tan made this disclosure in a talk to local media when he visited the BIR…
ILLEGAL recruiters continue to operate in the province and victimize people, mostly from the rural areas, according to the National Bureau of Investigation (NBI). NBI Pangasinan Agent-in-Charge Rogelio Mamauaga warned the public and urged them to be more cautious about job recruiters who require advance deposits or fees for overseas…
BETTER late than never. Help from the provincial government for farmers affected by the current El Niño condition has come a bit too late, but the beneficiaries are nonetheless grateful for the chance to save some of their crops.
ROSALES—Construction of the 88-kilometer Tarlac-Pangasinan-La Union Expressway (TPLEX) is now underway at the first project site in Barangay Tumana here. The P16.88 billion toll road, intended to enhance economic growth in the North Luzon Agribusiness Quadrangle (NLAQ), is being built through a Build-Operate-Transfer scheme by the Philippine Infrastructure Development Corporation…
FORMER Cavite Congressman and Nacionalista Party senatorial candidate Gilbert Remulla said he is open to nuclear energy as an option to solve an impending power crisis in the country but “an honest-to-goodness electricity audit” should first be done on existing Independent Power Producers (IPPs). Remulla, who visited Dagupan last week,…
GARBED in his military uniform as a reserve Army captain, provincial election officer Reddy Balarbar led the second ‘Operation Baklas last Friday, this time in Dagupan City. Campaign materials of national candidates were posted outside the designated common poster areas were torn down by a team with representatives from the…
INDIGENT residents of Dagupan received free medical services and medicines from the city government’s medical mission recently conducted at the Dagupan People’s Astrodome. Contributing to the mission were the Mercury Group of Companies, private and public doctors and nurses.
LINGAYEN–The provincial government, through the Provincial Employment Service Office (PESO), has joined forces with several other agencies to hold a forum aimed at raising the awareness of Pangasinenses on issues concerning labor and employment. The partner agencies are the Commission of Filipinos Overseas (CFO), Overseas Workers Welfare Association (OWWA) and…
OPERATION BAKLAS IN MOTION–Provincial Elections Supervisor Reddy Balarbar (in military uniform as a captain in the reserve force of the Philippine Army), leads a team in removing illegally posted campaign materials of candidates along the Tapuac-Lucao Road on the second outing of his agency’s ‘Operation Baklas’. With him is City…
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